Sustainable Development Initiatives at

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Sustainable Development Initiatives at SRF
Chemicals Business
An example of Corporate NGO Partnership 18th Feb
2010
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SRF-CB - an overview

• Established 1989 in Bhiwadi, Rajasthan
• Turnover in 2008-09 Rs. 595 Crores
• One of the largest players in Refrigerant Gas
  Business 39 domestic market share

Applications Refrigerants. Air Conditioning,
Blowing Agent, Aerosol

• Refrigerant Gases
• Floron 22 (HCFC)
• Floron 134a (HFC 134a)

• Chloromethanes
• Methylene Dichloride
• Chloroform
• Carbon Tetrachloride

Applications Raw Material for Refrigerants
Insecticides, Solvent in Drugs

• Fluorospecialities
• Trifluoroacetic Acid (TFA)
• Penta Fluoro Benzoic Acid
• Para Bromo Fluoro Benzene
• Tetrafluorobenzyl Alcohol

Applications Pharma Agro Intermediates
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Sustainable Development Initiatives
SRF Chemicals Business is engaged in addressing
some of the most pressing problems faced by the
community where it operates. The focus is on
Natural Resource Management, Primary Education
and HIV AIDS.
Earthen Check Dams
Stone Dams
Water Management
Plantations
Adopt Government Schools
Marking World AIDS Day
HIV AIDS Awareness
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Integrated NRM Project of SRF
NGO Partners
SPACE
Project Guide PRADAN Implementation Sir Syed
Trust (SST) Impact Assessment SPACE
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Inspiration

• One of the first industries in India to invest in
  CDM to reduce carbon emissions
• First company globally to be issued Carbon
  Credits ( CERs)
• One part of the project being to assist local
  community with Sustainable Development

Water
Livelihood
Empowerment
Education, Health
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Context
SRF Chemicals Business

• SRF plant is located in Tijara of Alwar part of
  Aravali hills
• Aravali hills spread over 500 kms across N-E to
  S-W of Rajasthan
• Once upon a time, covered with dense forest -
  providing firewood, fodder to local communities
  maintaining delicate ecological balance of the
  Aravali ecosystem.

SRF
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Landscape

• Over the years, severe land degradation has
  occurred due to
• Increasing pressure of human and livestock
  population
• Breakup of Community system leading to non
  ownership and maintenance of water structures.
• Large scale mining- legal and illegal

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The Community Meo-Muslims SCs
Alwar Tijara
Literacy 49.7 45.3
Female Literacy 34.9 29.4
Sex Ratio 886 829
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Project Design

• How did we go about our NRM project!
• Prepared the Project Charter
• Identification of NGO Partners
• Implementation Plan
• Established the Deliverables
• Budget (in line with the Activities)
• Details of working relationships
• MOUs with Partners
• Monitoring Review mechanism
• Documentation
• Impact Assessment

SPACE
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Interventions

• Mapping of the target area with involvement of
  local community
• Old water structures were identified
• Phased plan made for implementation
• Selling community the concept to local community
  and encourage them to contribute 20-30 for
  their buy-in
• Involved CGWB Jaipur for technical inputs
• Carried out contour surveys and hydrological
  studies to establish right locations for Paals
  etc.

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Community Mobilization

• Self Help Groups User Groups are formed which
  carry out interventions
• Funds are channelized through these groups,
  ensuring transparency

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Barrier walls commonly called Paals were
constructed to harvest surplus rain water and
recharge the soil profile
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Loose Stone Check Dams
To lessen the speed of water gushing down from
Hills
To check the velocity of rain water gushing down
from the hills
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Installed Injection wells Piezometers for
improved efficacy for Ground Water Recharge in
consultation with CGWB, Jaipur
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Leveling Terracing of undulated lands near
catchment
Where lands are highly undulating and lying
fallow
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Plantations on leveled lands
Focus on Fruit, Fodder, Wood trees
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Better Agricultural Practices
Mustard, Chilies, Tomatoes, Gladiolus
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Results

• Since 2006-07, we have been able to
• Create 119 Check Dams (Paals)
• 551 Loose Stone Check Dams
• Level 477 hectares of undulated Waste Land
• Plant 120,000 fruits, fodder and timber trees in
  the leveled lands
• Form 66 Community Self Help Groups
• Introduce improved variety of mustard (T-59) with
  an yield of 32 Qt/ Ha against the local breed
  (yield 19 Qt/Ha)
• Introduce improved Agriculture practices in more
  than 350 acres in impacting 501 families

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Impact so far

• Water harvesting
• Harvested 254 Ha-mtr of rainwater (cumulative 3
  yrs)
• Created over 350 Ha-meter of water holding
  capacity in the 119
• Paals
• In-situ soil moisture conservation
• On an average 3 cm water was conserved per
  hectare of land
• Increased soil moisture brings improvement in
  soil/crop productivity
• Families impacted
• 3780 families in 33 villages

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Kissan Sammelan Feb 2009

• To acknowledge community for their work in paals
  construction, land leveling, plantation etc
• Hand over the paals to the community so that they
  take ownership of maintaining them as their own
  assets.

Participation of more than 1000 people, largely
women
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Our Vision for NRM Based Livelihood Project
Bank
Market
Mother Dairy
Linkages established
Linkages established
Linkages established
60 SHG Federation
Producer Companies Milk Producers
Producer Companies Vegetable/Fruits producers
Empowered women, families (Socially
Economically)
22 Villages
Mobilizing Women
Transforming farms Enhanced Productivity
Social Transformation
Management of Land, Water Paals, Field Bunds,
Plantations etc
Physical Work
Completion
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Way Forward

• Expand our reach in the NRM Project
• Go further downstream in the areas of education,
  skills improvement look at health and sanitation
  interventions

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Acknowledgements

• PRADAN helped us in conceptualizing and
  initiating this Project
• SST with its experience of working with local
  community were the best choice for being the
  implementation partners
• SPACE brought in the expertise in agriculture and
  impact assessment to ensure the benefits reach
  the community
• SARD is engaged with us in Education and Health
  related initiatives
• IDEA (CGWB), for their technical expertise in
  groundwater
• Interventions

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Education Government School AdoptionPartners
SARD and SRFF

• Bridge Schools Mainstream Out-of-School Children
• 62 children mainstreamed in 4 years
• Remedial Support Centers Reduce drop out rates
  of school children in Govt. primary schools
• About 17 centers organized in last 4 years and 3
  Centres presently running (180 students)

• Ban-Ban School adoption by SRF
• Goals
• Raise Minimum Learning Levels
• Reduce dropout rate Improve attendance
• Focus on girl child

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Ban Ban Government Primary School

• 3 Fold Planned Improvements
• Infrastructure
• Teachers, Curriculum, Pedagogy
• Community Involvement
• Outputs so far
• There has been increase in overall attendance
  avg. learning level
• Permission obtained for Bridge school for 5th
  pass out girls

After
Infrastr. Improvements
Community Involvement
Before
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HIV AIDS at Work Place SRF-SARD Model
Master Trainers
(The International Labor Organization)
Peer Educators
With the help of SARD, developed a band of Peer
Educators and Master Trainers to expand the
community outreach program in the neighboring
industries and the local community more than
4000 people (employees, contract workers,
truckers covered )
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We are thankful to our NGO Partners for guiding
us through the issues of Survival and
Sustainability
Thank you for your attention